Estimated safety rating

skypehost.exe may be a dangerous program, according to heuristic analysis. It triggers too many of the "probable danger" criteria described in this document. It is not yet known if skypehost.exe is a virus or not which doesn't cause harm the PC. We recommend you to be careful with this program.

Executable file path

The default name and folder where the application is stored is
C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.SkypeApp_11.8.190.0_x64__kzf8qxf38zg5c\SkypeHost.exe.

MD5 hash of the executable file

The MD5 checksum for this executable is b573d6373be71c153f9f47037cefb73f.

Is running as a service

This program is NOT a Windows service. This is good.

Accepts incoming connections

skypehost.exe appears to act as a network server. This means other computers can create connections to it. This is sometimes ok, but in some cases it can facilitate a security breach. We advise looking at this carefully.

Accesses the internet

This application uses the Internet to communicate. In this day and age this is quite normal. For example, most of the apps on your computer check for updates. For this, Internet communications are required.

Is a 64 bit executable file

This is a x64 executable. It uses the full capacity of nowadays' computer processors.

Digitally signed

The digital signature is missing from this program. The maker did not sign it. This is usually bad.

Can be uninstalled

This executable does NOT have a removal routine set up in registry.